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VIRGINIA L. LEWIS
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Cover Art: 'Deryn
Lewis' by Katie Kehrwald © Cover Design by Rosana Sánchez © |
ISBN:
978-1-931948-90-6
(First Edition, USA, 2010)
ISBN:
978-9-403645-85-8 (Second Edition, Europe, 2021)
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An Exciting Family Novel
Twelve-year-old Andrea Heinrichsen leaves her loving, if
somewhat overprotective mother, to take part in a three-week
orchestra festival in Leipzig. There she meets up with the
likewise twelve-year-old Angela Heinrichsen, who bears shocking
resemblance to her, and the illusory family life her mother had
built up around Andrea caves in on itself. Determined to get to
the bottom of things, the twins emulate the main characters from
“The Parent Trap” and trade places, unaware of the dangers that
lurk ahead. Surprise follows surprise as events unfold in this
suspenseful novel.
Eine aufregende
Familiengeschichte
Mit zwölf Jahren verlässt Andrea
Heinrichsen ihre liebevolle, wenn auch etwas überbehütende
Mutter, um an einem dreiwöchigen Orchesterfest teilzunehmen.
Dort begegnet sie der ebenfalls zwölfjährigen, ihr schaurig
ähnlichen Angela Heinrichsen, und die bequeme Familienwelt, die
ihre Mutter um Andrea herum aufgebaut hatte, kracht mit einem
Mal in sich zusammen. Um der ganzen Sache auf den Grund zu
gehen, ahmen die Zwillinge die Mädchen in dem ihnen bekannten
Kinderroman „Das doppelte Lottchen“ nach und tauschen die
Plätze, ohne die Gefahren zu ahnen, die ihnen bevorstehen. Die
Überraschungen häufen sich in diesem spannenden Roman.
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TWIN ROLES
COME TOGETHER
NSU Professor
writes novels - in German
Virginia Lewis, a professor at Northern State University,
has written a novel in German
that
is the first part of a trilogy.
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American News Photo By John Davis © |
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Elissa Dickey,
Aberdeen News (October 26, 2010):
Schön
kästnerisch
verfahren, published by University Press of the South in New
Orleans, is the first volume of a trilogy about the family.
The book's cover art includes two pictures of her 10-year-old
daughter, Deryn, so that she looks like identical twin girls.
Deryn is a fraternal twin; her twin brother is Culver. Lewis'
older son, Asher, 13, was also a twin, but his twin didn't make
it through the pregnancy, she said. Lewis, who grew up in
Auburn, Ala., has lived in Aberdeen for five years.
Lewis said it was an enormous learning experience to try to
write as if she were from a different country. She received help
from German natives, including some she met through her work
with the online German dictionary found at dic.cc. Lewis said
she also took on the challenge to improve her own German.
She also learned a lot about German culture during the process,
including that German students don't use lockers and German
couples have to get married by the state first (even if they
plan a church wedding). She can pass these details on to her
students, she said, adding that the experience has made her a
better German teacher. |
Virginia L. Lewis
has taught German language
and literature
since 1982 at various universities in the U.S. She introduced
Erich Kästner’s “Das doppelte Lottchen,” on which “The Parent
Trap” is based, in a seminar course, and was inspired to write
“Schön kästnerisch verfahren” as a result. The novel is the
first part of a trilogy about the fictional Heinrichsen family
from Hamburg. Lewis has authored numerous books and articles on
German Realism and World Literature, including “Globalizing the
Peasant: Access to Land and the Possibility of
Self-Realization.” She is currently Associate Professor of
German at Northern State University.
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Virginia L. Lewis
unterrichtet deutsche Sprache und Literatur seit
1982 an verschiedenen amerikanischen Universitäten. Sie hat
Kästners Kinderroman im Rahmen eines Seminars unterrichtet und
wurde dadurch zur Komposition von „Schön kästnerisch verfahren“
angespornt. Der Roman ist der erste Teil einer Trilogie über die
fiktive Heinrichsen-Familie aus Hamburg. Lewis ist die Autorin
von Büchern und Artikeln auf den Gebieten des deutschen
Realismus und der Weltliteratur, einschließlich „Globalizing the
Peasant: Access to Land and the Possibility of
Self-Realization“.
Sie ist zur Zeit Associate Professor of German an
der Northern State University in South Dakota.
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